I also attended some excellent workshops, one examining the making of BBC Radio's fantastic Don't Hang Up, and one on storytelling with the brains behind the Pablo the Dr ug Mule Dog campaign. Nathalie from OnRoadMedia talked about her experience of developing a social networking site for young gypsies, especially extolling the virtues of ning.com - a site that lets you quickly and easily set up your own social networking site for any purpose - I thought this could be a great way to organise Friends groups, or keep track of a project. Mark from Podnosh led a great surgery looking at audio and video, and I really enjoyed the great examples of video from the RNID. The highlight of that for me though was when someone compared our Mersey People audio to the work of Radio 4!

What really stuck out for me during the day was people's 'have a go' attitude - everyone was keen to learn, and the emphasis was on what you can produce yourself, on any budget. The event was being followed and documented on Twitter, a micro-blogging site, and loads of people signed up to Twitter during the day and were posting entries from their phones / laptops during the sessions, which was fantastic. It's made me wonder what we could do in this vein at the forthcoming Environment 09 conference. (Here's Twitter's GETTING STARTED guide for the uninitiated).

That's enough from me. SMEX09 organisers Sound Delivery have made sure everything from the day has been gathered under one roof HERE, so get over there and find out what else went on......